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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Dialect
Theme
Allegory
2. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Blank Verse
Connotation
Dialect
Ode
3. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Oxymoron
Stanza
Parody
Antagonist
4. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Symbol
Symbolism
Suspense
Exposition
5. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Aside
Exposition
Quatrain
6. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Catharsis
Parallelism
Conceit
Foreshadowing
7. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Suspense
Audience
Motif
Conflict
8. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Reversal
Myth
Dialogue
Hyperbole
9. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
1st Person
Lyric Poem
Allusion
Characterization
10. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Allegory
Antagonist
Elegy
11. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Comic Relief
Closed Form
Alliteration
Subplot
12. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Repetition
Denotation
Climax
Subplot
13. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Theme
Falling Meter
Sonnet
14. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Complication
Free Verse
Narrative Poem
Aphorism
15. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Act
Meter
Rising Action
Quatrain
16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Recognition
Point of View
Setting
Free Verse
17. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Rhythm
Apostrophe
Simile
Scenes
18. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Narrative Poem
Iamb
19. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Comic Relief
Dialect
Imagery
Foot
20. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Tercet
Repetition
21. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Aubade
Syntax
Villanelle
Tone
22. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Reversal
Myth
Solioquy
Synecdoche
23. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Stereotype
Elegy
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
24. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Solioquy
Symbol
Parable
25. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Plot
Falling Meter
Climax
Figurative Language
26. A strong pause within a line.
Rhyme
Imagery
Caesura
Parallelism
27. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Dactyl
Subject
Octave
28. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Tercet
Rhythm
Personification
29. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Cliche
Persona
Elision
Rhythm
30. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Aubade
Lyric Poem
Comic Relief
Foreshadowing
31. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Parable
Allusion
Denouement
Stereotype
32. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Protagonist
Conceit
Nonfiction
33. A poem that tells a story.
Simile
Narrative Poem
Sonnet
1st Person
34. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Epic
Style
Closed Form
Symbol
35. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Dramatic Irony
Symbolism
Satire
Character
36. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Plot
Sestina
Simile
Parable
37. What a story or play is about.
Conceit
Denotation
Subject
Conflict
38. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Conceit
Setting
Style
Fiction
39. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Elision
Convention
Act
Motif
40. The time and place of a story or play.
Subject
Style
Persona
Setting
41. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Nonfiction
Foot
Ballad
Point of View
42. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Character
Personification
Complication
Voice
43. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Internal Conflict
Diction
Pyrrhic
44. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Conflict
Hyperbole
Metaphor
45. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Paradox
Denotation
Motif
Enjambment
46. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Paradox
Mood
Epic
Synecdoche
47. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Pyrrhic
Free Verse
Metaphor
Stanza
48. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Dactyl
Sestet
Parallelism
Reversal
49. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Plot
Octave
Personification
Nonfiction
50. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Image
Complication
Setting
Foot